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What is wrong with the SEC?

Posted on 12/30/16 at 9:37 am
Posted by The Silverback
Neptune
Member since May 2013
2037 posts
Posted on 12/30/16 at 9:37 am
Maybe it's already been explained, but is the SEC below the ACC and Big Ten without a doubt now?

Bama winning it all won't make the conference look better.
Posted by Eli Goldfinger
Member since Sep 2016
32785 posts
Posted on 12/30/16 at 9:37 am to
Bad coaching hires.
Posted by Upslope
United States
Member since Dec 2016
207 posts
Posted on 12/30/16 at 9:40 am to
No elite coach wants to compete with Saban. they'd rather fake heart attacks and run off to weaker conferences where they know they can win.
Posted by Jrv2damac
Kanorado
Member since Mar 2004
65865 posts
Posted on 12/30/16 at 9:40 am to
quote:

Bama winning it all won't make the conference look better.


They probably won't anyway
Posted by tigerfan in bamaland
Back Home now
Member since Sep 2006
61199 posts
Posted on 12/30/16 at 9:45 am to
Bama beat a bunch of weak arse teams.
Posted by Rabern57
Alabama
Member since Jan 2010
13374 posts
Posted on 12/30/16 at 9:47 am to
quote:

Bama winning it all won't make the conference look better.

Nope and next year they will put less teams in the preseason and be asking who did the sec champ beat all year.
This post was edited on 12/30/16 at 9:48 am
Posted by lsufball19
Franklin, TN
Member since Sep 2008
65527 posts
Posted on 12/30/16 at 9:53 am to
quote:

Bama winning it all won't make the conference look better.

Maybe Alabama isn't as dominant as they appear. Fans of other schools have been saying the SEC was average for awhile this season. Alabama fans seem to need bowl season to truly realize the suck that was the SEC
Posted by ChexMix
Taste the Deliciousness
Member since Apr 2014
25494 posts
Posted on 12/30/16 at 9:56 am to
Poor coaching, poor Qb play and poor defense.
Posted by TigerPaw1
Chattanooga, TN
Member since Apr 2011
16979 posts
Posted on 12/30/16 at 9:58 am to
I feel like this question has been asked like 50 times on this board and the answer is still the same. Bad QB play. Here's the QBs that played this year for the other Big 6 teams

AU - Sean White/John Franklin/Jeremy Johnson
LSU - Brandon Harris/Danny Etling
UGA - Jacob Eason
UF - Luke Del Rio/Austin Appleby
UT - Josh Dobbs

That isn't exactly the best group of QBs we have seen. Add in the fact that guys like White and Del Rio who are at least solid got hurt and Eason is a true freshman and you get what we got this year. I think the SEC is better next season but probably 2 years away from having better all around talent at the QB spot.
Posted by BoddaBoom7
Oxford, AL
Member since Jul 2016
957 posts
Posted on 12/30/16 at 9:59 am to
I bet the conference wouldn't suck as bad if, say LSU had won it. It would have been a formidable gauntlet of teams that the mighty tigers laid waste to.
Posted by No Colors
Sandbar
Member since Sep 2010
10651 posts
Posted on 12/30/16 at 10:28 am to
quote:

What is wrong with Silverback?

No one knows
Posted by TigerB8
End Communism
Member since Oct 2003
9414 posts
Posted on 12/30/16 at 10:34 am to
No AD wants to piss away millions for some hotshot coach to lose to Saban every year. Everyone is in a holding pattern hoping for Saban to get bored and leave. So, you get a shitty conference until Bama stops winning it all every year.
Posted by CharlotteSooner
Member since Mar 2016
11221 posts
Posted on 12/30/16 at 10:42 am to
You're a blocked FG away from being 0-5. Consider that....
Posted by bigman334
Member since Jul 2013
2417 posts
Posted on 12/30/16 at 10:44 am to
thats such a Bama question to ask. their isnt a rule in place that says the SEC will be the best conference every year.
Posted by jptiger2009
Baton Rouge
Member since Feb 2009
9616 posts
Posted on 12/30/16 at 10:48 am to
It began earlier than the last 2 years as some would elude to. The point the SEC is at now began with the SEC East shite show after the downfall of Florida (Urban Meyer leaving), the mediocrity of Georgia, and the nebraskaness of Tennessee.
Posted by GurleyGirl
Georgia
Member since Nov 2015
13184 posts
Posted on 12/30/16 at 12:02 pm to
quote:

What is wrong with the SEC?


Lack of talent at some key positions not the least of which is the OL is our main problem.
Posted by HuRRiCaNe MiLeS
Bossier City
Member since Jan 2010
8153 posts
Posted on 12/30/16 at 12:06 pm to
Pretty much all Coaches suck except for BAMA
Posted by StrawsDrawnAtRandom
Member since Sep 2013
21146 posts
Posted on 12/30/16 at 12:22 pm to
A lot of teams are in the bad part of a cycle, some are rising.

I'm not panicking yet, these are some of the worse teams in the SEC.

Vandy was 3 - 5 and had the game robbed.

Texas A&M was 4 - 4.

Georgia is 4 - 4.

Mississippi State was 4 - 4.

In fact, Florida is the only SEC East team that has a winning record in the East.

There are only four teams in the SEC who have positive records in the SEC as a whole, so...yeah I won't worry yet.
Posted by tjv305
Member since May 2015
12522 posts
Posted on 12/30/16 at 12:35 pm to
A lot of bad coaching hires while other conferences have hired big time coaches like Petrino , Meyer and Harbaugh . Plus a lot of top programs need better QBs. 2 of the top programs in the SEC had starting QBs that transferred from Purdue because they couldn't start there.
Posted by GoldenGuy
Member since Oct 2015
10958 posts
Posted on 12/30/16 at 1:22 pm to
1. Bama isn't a derogatory word in the rest of the country
2. Inbred recruiting practices.

Compare rosters: Bama LSU

Bama isn't grabbing talent from just Alabama and the south in general. They're grabbing from everywhere else too. Even if those players are only in the Top 20 in their state that year, that's more likely talented than the 15th best player in a small state.

I chose LSU to compare because it's just so high in Louisiana players. The rest of ya'll aren't that well off either.
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